Lemmy v0.18.4 Release

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What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Major Changes

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly. It also fixes a couple other bugs.

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. No one likes recurring donations, but they’ve proven to be the only way that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive.

Upgrade instructions

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker. There are no config or API changes with this release.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

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Support development

I've subscribed monthly, if you can afford it, you should too!

There's no present danger of making the development team rich enough to dismantle the capitalist state. The funding is yet to reach normal subsistence level. You can see the sums collected in each of the platforms.

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly.

All I came here to see, thanks.

Does anyone else have an issue where the browser back button causes Lemmy to go back twice?

In other words, if you click "next" at the bottom of your feed, open a post and press the back button, does it return to the original page?

Or, if you choose a sort, open a post and press the back button, does the sort get reverted?

It started happening to me in 0.18.3, but I don't want to file a report if I'm the only one experiencing this

I tried it and if I click next, I go to page 2. Then I open a post and click the back button on the browser. And then I'm back on page 2, as expected.

Also tried to switch sorting method and it remembers the sorting method when I go back from a post as expected.

I think probably you have some plugin that is interfering. Try with another browser or a clean browser profile.

I can reproduce it on Android in Firefox Nightly, but not in incognito mode (even while logged in). It happens in Chromium as well, including in incognito mode

In Firefox, I've tried disabling all add-ons and tracking protection and clearing cache and cookies, to no avail

I could test on other phones and operating systems, but I don't really want to spend more time on this. It's not that big of an issue for me

Hmm. That's really weird. Hopefully someone else in this thread can test also so we get more info.

When this happens, I reload, which seems to return me to where I was in the feed. It's a workaround, but it would be nice to just press the back button

Yes, this and the broken comment context has made browsing seriously painful

Oh, so It's not just me. I'll do what I can to find the cause

Still happens to me on chrome with the webpage. I'm using Sync almost exclusively now and it doesn't have this bug.

Feature request: an option to aggregate all comments of crossposted posts. It would save manually going through each crosspost

put it in the github

I updated https://lemmy.today this morning and no problems at all.

We are a small instance but still wanted to post this. Maybe it calms the nerves for some instance owners. :)

Oopsie woopsie yo instance is down 🫀

Nah, i just forgot the s in https in the link i posted. :)

Fixed it now, thank you.

You're welcome. May I suggest to redirecting http to https? Even default nginx conf doing that as I remember.

Edit: It didnt do a redirect by default. :) Will fix that.

I don't want to bother you more but I tried it on my phone, with a browser I never use, it shows nginx page πŸ€” FYI

You dont bother me, this is very interesting actually....

You still get this default nginx page?

Yep. I tried with a web proxy too.

Is there a chance you forgot reloading nginx?

No I was just being stupid.

The default settings didnt have a redirect so you were getting the default nginx web page since you went to the http version.

Now you should be redirected. Thanks for taking the time to bounce a few pixels back and forth. :)

This version fixes the problem of comment context not loading properly.

Thank Stallman. You guys rock!

and again, docker images for arm64 are ready as well :)

thanks for the arm builds, I am currently using masquernya/lemmy-arm64.git for arm builds. How do you handle the lemmy-translations update in your build pipeline for lemmy-ui?

I do not see you doing the following, or did I miss something

# manual updates
cd lemmy-translations/;
git checkout "$TRANSLATION_COMMIT" || exit 1;

also do you have to trigger the build manually when a new lemmy version is out ?

Hi, Thanks for the hints, and yes I have to trigger the pipeline by editing and commiting the Version information here

do I really need

cd lemmy-translations/;
git checkout "$TRANSLATION_COMMIT" || exit 1;

even if I have

git submodule init
git submodule update

See here and here

You can run git submodule update, then it will pull the same translations as specified in the lemmy repo. Or run git submodule update --remote, then it will pull the latest commit from lemmy-translations.

Thanks, so my pipeline should be fine in the sense that it uses the commit of the submodule, stored in the version tagged lemmy commit

I just tested it, submodule init+update pulls the latest commit of submodules, this could be different from the commit used in the tagged release version

Thanks, I'll have a look at it, but if you're faster I'm happy about a PR :)

This not a big problem I guess, if anything it gives you the latest translations πŸ™‚

Thanks for the hard work. I've cancelled my Patreon and switched to Liberapay.

I missed the AMA, but I saw someone ask about archiving Lemmy and one of you two had mentioned that the instances kinda already do. In a sense they do, but only for subscribed instances. I feel like there could be something a bit more dedicated for the purpose of archival.

Do you have any thoughts or tips on the best way to tackle that? I have a bit of rust experience and willing to look into it.

You can use the lemmy-stats-crawler (or part of the code) to get a list of instances. Then use endpoints /api/v3/post/list and /api/v3/comment/list to retrieve the content.

Is it just me or is lemmy-ui broken in 0.18.4 docker image? When I upgraded my instance, the UI was not loading properly.

After upgrading it usually takes a couple minutes to work. After refreshing it should work again

Is there a way - as a user - to block/ignore whole instances instead of only single communities?

Phone apps are doing it, but not sure if that is part of the base functionality. (I use Connect and I can block users, communities or instances.)

cough cough lemmygrad cough cough

Edit: I don't have a personal problem with you if you're a communist guys, I just don't want my feed full of communist memes

This one. And 2-3 others that popped up in the federated timeline recently.

Hexbear nods

What is hexbear btw?

Old lifeboat from the r/chapotraphouse banning 3 years ago. It almost instantly became the largest lemmy instance at the time and so the devs next bunch of patches were optimising so our servers weren't crash constantly. I think that state of affairs kinda maintained until the reddit blackout. Officially, it's non-sectarian leftism, but practically speaking it's a more shitposty less serious lemmygrad with way higher throughput. Also for a non-trans focused space online, it's very trans.

The name itself was just the meme that was popular on r/cth at the time of shutdown ("Look at this dope ass bear og-hex-bear "), and there was a vote to move away from the podcast themed name.

Because of the load and a few other things (I don't remember, I'm sure there was drama), there was a lemmy fork that only recently got reintegrated, but it means hexbear is now federated into the lemmyverse.

i assume/hope this is why .world is down?

Nice, hopefully this fix Sync for Lemmy issues with sorting.

Looks like the links to the fixes are just going to the entirely wrong place. They aren't related at all

any fix for the instances updated column falling out of date? or maybe expanding the window to 5 days instead of 3 days? or instances with 2 day old updated column could be rechecked daily?

https://yiffit.net/post/868741

I don't think I was able to find an issue or pull request about this on Github so I haven't been able to track its progress

I was gonna file a bug on Github but one of the required fields is a log file, but I don't currently have this issue on my own little instance

Came from reddit to lemmy, it's difficult to use it :( I'm using thunder, still using lemmy seems a headache

I feel your pain and I'm hoping I can help! I'm making a web UI that aims to be easier to use than existing ones.

It's not as refined as reddit but the content is better and the community can improve the UI/UX over time... At first it was a little awkward for me coming from reddit but it didn't take long for me to adjust and the diversity of people and ideas I've found on here is well worth it.